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The
New England Pension Assistance
Project has been collaborating
with the U.S. Departments of
Labor and Health & Human
Services to sponsor
conferences for agency
personnel “for
those
who care about women’s
health, financial security,
and employment rights.”
Attorney Jeanne
Medeiros of the New England
Pension Assistance Project was
a panelist at a June 4 Rhode
Island conference.
About
two hundred people attended
the conference, which was the
third in a series of federally
sponsored New England
conferences on women’s
issues in which the Pension
Assistance Project has
participated.
Medeiros’s
talk focused mainly on ways in
which women’s caregiving
roles impact on their income
in both pre-retirement and
retirement years.
A recent study by the
National Center on Women and
Aging found that caregivers
lose over $650,000 in reduced
wages and benefits over their
lifetimes.
She also talked about
finding lost pensions and
about women getting a share of
pension benefits in divorce
cases. |
